Seltzer Books: 1134 books

This file includes libretti of: Edgar, Gianni Schicchi, Il Tabarro, La Bohème, Manon Lescaut, Suor Angelica, Tosca, Turandot, and Villi, in the original Italian. According to Wikipedia: "Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (22 December 1858 29 November 1924) was an Italian composer...

This file includes: Apollo et Hyacinthus (in Latin); Ascanio in Alba (in Italian); Bastien und Bastienne (in German); Cosi fan tutte (in Italian); Die Entführung aus dem Serail (in German); Die Gärtnerin aus Liebe (in German); Die Zauberfloete (in German); Don Giovanni o l'empio punito (in Italian);...

Classic novel in the original French. According to Wikipedia: "Alexandre Dumas, pere (French for "father", akin to 'Senior' in English), born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (July 24, 1802-December 5, 1870) was a French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have...

Classic work of history. According to Wikipedia: "Alfred Thayer Mahan (September 27, 1840 - December 1, 1914) was a United States Navy officer, geostrategist, and educator. His ideas on the importance of sea power influenced navies around the world, and helped prompt naval buildups before World War...

This file includes: Adelaide di Borgogna, in Italian; Adina, in Italian; Armida, in Italian; Aureliano in Palmira, in Italian; Bianca e Falliero, in Italian; Ciro in Babilonia, in Italian; Le Comte Ory, in French; Demetrio e Polibio, in Italian; Eduardo e Christina, in Italian; Elisabetta Regina d'Inggilterra,...

According to Wikipedia: "Frances Burney (13 June 1752 6 January 1840), also known as Fanny Burney and, after her marriage, as Madame d’Arblay, was an English novelist, diarist and playwright. She was born in King’s Lynn, England, on 13 June 1752, to musical historian Dr Charles Burney (17261814)...

Literary criticism about The Pickwick Papers by Dickens. According to the author: "Dickens, like all great authors, had a tendency to underestimate the value of his most popular book. At any rate, it is certainly on record that he thought considerably more of some of his other works than he did of...

First-hand account of the invention of the airplane by Orville and Wilbur Wright. The book begins: "THOUGH the subject of aerial navigation is generally considered new, it has occupied the minds of men more or less from the earliest ages. Our personal interest in it dates from our childhood days....

Practical and humorous advice, first published around 1900. The first few chapters are entitled: The Mutual Dissatisfaction of the Sexes, Why Men Don't Marry, Why Women Don't Marry, and The Tragedy of the Undesired.

This file includes the novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray" plus "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories". The "other" stories are: The Canterville Ghost, The Sphinx Without a Secret, The ModelMillionaire, and The Portrait of Mr. W. H. According to Wikipedia: "Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde...

Classic novel. According to Wikipedia: "George Robert Gissing (November 22, 1857 December 28, 1903) was an English novelist who wrote twenty-three novels between 1880 and 1903. From his early naturalistic works, he developed into one of the most accomplished realists of the late-Victorian era....

Classic short novel. According to Wikipedia: "Charles John Huffam Dickens, (1812 - 1870), pen-name "Boz", was the foremost English novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous social campaigner. Considered one of the English language's greatest writers, he was acclaimed for his rich storytelling...

Classic western novel. According to Wikipedia: "Hamlin Hannibal Garland (September 14, 1860 March 4, 1940) was an American novelist, poet, essayist, and short story writer. He is best known for his fiction involving hard-working Midwestern farmers."

Part 6 of the Parkman series "France and England in North America". According to Wikipedia: "Francis Parkman (September 16, 1823 - November 8, 1893) was an American historian, best known as author of The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life and his monumental seven volume France...